175 Quotes Regarding Sympathy


I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
Hugh Jackman

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Max Beerbohm

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Lillie Langtry

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Aneurin Bevan

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.
Jared Leto

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
Henry Ossawa Tanner

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John Irving

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
George Saunders

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.
Alton Brown

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Louise J. Kaplan

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Lionel Blue

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
Tom Ford